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Sry, ename144, i can't find the word "aughts". Did you mean eighties by any chance? Else i have a bit difficulties to understand the rest of your post.It's a semi-amateur porn vid from the late aughts
Thank you in advance.
Sry, ename144, i can't find the word "aughts". Did you mean eighties by any chance? Else i have a bit difficulties to understand the rest of your post.It's a semi-amateur porn vid from the late aughts
aught means 0 (zero). The decade ending on December 31, 2009 can be called the "aughts"Sry, ename144, i can't find the word "aughts". Did you mean eighties by any chance? Else i have a bit difficulties to understand the rest of your post.
Thank you in advance.
"Aughts" is the slang term for the decade from 2000-2009. It's the equivalent of the "Eighties," just for a different time period. The name derives from the word aught, which means 0.Sry, ename144, i can't find the word "aughts". Did you mean eighties by any chance? Else i have a bit difficulties to understand the rest of your post.
Thank you in advance.
How is yo mama cucking you irl huh?? She fucking your girl or something?I play these games to get away from reality. I don't want my mom cucking me in my fantasies, tooooo
I think here you did -at least partly- misunderstood to what "inside job" was meant to reference:As for Victoria's porn career having some connection to the Club (...)
If Victoria was already involved with the Club (...)
Sorry, I was using 'Club' a little informally there. I'm aware the Carnation Club itself seems to be newer than Victoria's old videos (and we know for certain the Summer Exhibition is only 5 years old). I was using Club as shorthand for "the people behind the Club doing the same sorts of thing they do now," but I should have specified that.I think here you did -at least partly- misunderstood to what "inside job" was meant to reference:
If this wasn't a semi-amateur porn vid with an unpolished feel, but indeed a leaked raw footage, i was pointing at the crew members of said shoot and especially the director of the video. And, yes, i do believe this 'could' have been one of our antagonists, i don't see a real problem with that.
As for the club as an existing business, i believe we have already established it wasn't up and running at that point in time. So no involvement with the club per se.
However all our old owners had a life before the club, and i don't believe their actions (Chuck isn't a pervert only since his retirement) and jobs (porn-producer and pimp for 30 years, August) and preferences (Kat was a sadist since early childhood) have changed much in the past 15 to 20 years. It's just since the opening of the club they can pursue their various interests on a much more reliable basis with the added bonus of earning a lot of hard, cold cash.
Don't forget prostitutes make up a one digit percentage of a given population, and porn-models are even rarer (one of the more comprehensive porn database proudly features "more than 50.000 models" including glam-models (only softcore content) worldwide and spanning a timeframe of roughly 30 years). What i want to say is: meeting an actual porn-starlet is a rare ocurrence, if you don't actively seek them out, and at any given time i'd expect i.e. for the USA a few thousand models in this business, compared to probably hundreds of thousand prostitutes.
Now not every porn-model needs her own producer or director so these numbers are again a tiny fraction of that, and they tend to flock together in places like Los-Angeles or Miami (from the top of the head i could recall only one or -tops- two cities in my country featuring a porn industry, and one of those happens to be the capital).
In the end it's a small, very small industry on the production side (head count wise), and i wouldn't be surprised if August, for instance, ends up as the only one in Morehead Hills. At least we can be sure he does and did know his fellow entrepeneurs in this business in his area.
This seems to be at the root of what I don't understand. Why wouldn't the MC remember the scenes with the timestamp? He wasn't present at the shoot, all he's seen is the video with the timestamp included.Nonetheless your interjection is absolutely valid, in that case you just need to ditch my last two sentences of the upper paragraph, the other point i made stays untouched:
Edwin has access to one of his mothers videos with timestamps. And his memories include them.
Technically there's a small coda with Ian at the end, but Hana's date and aftermath is the last major scene of the current update (assuming you choose to pursue Hana, obviously).Is sex with hana the ending for this update?
This is the discussion i was hoping for, thanks for taking my bait!This seems to be at the root of what I don't understand.
Because he remembers his mother's casting with timestamps, he wasn't present at that shoot neither, all he's seen was the DVD without timestamps included. More than half of that content is from Edwin recurring to Victorias casting during Rosalinds gonzo and conducting this shoot in a similar way.Why wouldn't the MC remember the scenes with the timestamp? He wasn't present at the shoot, all he's seen is the video with the timestamp included.
Edwins development as aOf course there is a mystery about Victorias porn career, and knowing exactly when she started, why she started, how long she was in and who had their fingers in that development is pivotal for Edwins stance towards the carnations, the club and the owners and his general outlook on life.
And most important: will he, in the upcoming future events, still be able to fall back on Victoria as a guiding, soothing and grounding figure who kept his ethics in check sofar, if his perception of his Mother changes.
no, she was damaged in that process and bears the scars and consequences (like her difficulties to get a regular job) to this day. It definitely has affected her relation to Edwin on her side also.Victoria had to endure some tough stuff, but she got what she needed from it and emerged intact.
I can't agree with you hereMore importantly, my concerns about conflating Victoria's backstory with the Club remain. If Victoria was involved with run-of-the-mill small time porn producers, she serves as an important contrast to the way the Club (Kat in particular) treats its girls.
'they' treated her also (equally) in a despicable way, like we already have seen in the first two reviews and which i will try to emphasize in my review of Victoria's third pornshoot.defy Kat and treat the girls more like those small time pornos treated Victoria
Victoria could have been easily broken by those 'small time pornos' like many other women who get into sex-work, i have atm no data on this, but i expect the numbers of drug-addiction, alcoholism and depression in this sub-populace are much higher than its prevalence in the general public. Emerging somewhat 'intact' from this experience is Victorias merit alone, and not a special accomplishment of those porn producers. Breaking intentionally or not doesn't matter for the toy, if the result is the same.Kat, on the other hand, likes to break her toys once she's done playing with them.
The difference between breaking something intentionally or not is in the degree of personal guilt of the breaker.or embrace Kathleen's mindset and risk ruining the lives of people like him and his mom in the process.
It's a little bit a curse that we are able to track the exact amount of content in a single update, because players of the finished game can't make this distinction. My ch4upd1 was very short compared to what is available, but i can't complain since that was my choice in the past.TBH, if I wouldn't have been forewarned, I would have been very disappointed with an update almost exclusively focusing on one character.
To be honest, the only reason I wanted to write a porn game is to force unsubtle and blatant movie references on people. One of my greatest joys from development is knowing that GIL had to spend a few hours of his limited time on this planet recreating the ending scene of Hard Ticket to Hawaii to satiate my stupid fucking impulses.Not sure if I wrote this already before at some point...
But kudos to TD for referencing the unquestionable best food movie of all time!
That's an extremely speculative statement. First, because we can't ignore the possibility that the lack of timestamp was an error in the game. Second, because there's no reason the 'casting' shoot couldn't use multiple cameras, only one of which had the time code. As you noted, we see a camera in some of the shots. You assumed that was proof the MC had behind the scenes footage. Occam's razor suggests shoot included faux-BTS footage to help sell the illusion that it was real. This is what I meant when I said I wouldn't read too much into those videos.This is the discussion i was hoping for, thanks for taking my bait!
There are several points in your post worth looking into further, but i'll start with this one:
Because he remembers his mother's casting with timestamps, he wasn't present at that shoot neither, all he's seen was the DVD without timestamps included. More than half of that content is from Edwin recurring to Victorias casting during Rosalinds gonzo and conducting this shoot in a similar way.
There shouldn't be any timestamps in there as far as he is concerned, i was just pointing out in the case of the 'yellow' video they are justified, whereas in the casting memories of him they are not.
I think you're ignoring the actual game in favor of your preferred interpretation. AFAICT, nothing in the video clips we've seen calls the MC's story into question.Also to reiterate, since he cannot falsify her age declaration in the casting due missing timestamps in his available video, as far as he is concerned there are years between her casting and the second video. Edwin doesn't know (we don't know either for sure, that's true) how many videos she did between these two ones, but to him it looks like she sustained their little family starting shortly after his fathers death (which is likely not correct), forced by the dire circumstances, with enduring nasty shit.
And for this he is immensively grateful towards her, overlooking obvious flaws in her motherhood, and even adjusting his own future because of that.
I'm having a lot of problems using that site, but even if we go with these numbers, it's not really a fair comparison. An entry-level GP not only needs an MD, they also need to complete their residency. In contrast, an entry level 'technical' engineer only needs a BS, possibly even an associate's degree. So not only does the GP require a lot more money for education, they also need to wait longer before they can start earning the salary.Edwin is very fond of physics, for instance, but instead going down a path to become a physicist or engineer, which would align more closely with his interests, he feels compelled to somehow repay his mom for her sacrifices (at one point he imagines him and Victoria on their own boat, carefree):
According toYou don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.You must be registered to see the linksthe income differences of these career paths are significant:
entry level physicist's annual income median for Baltimore: ~ 72.000$
entry level technical engineer's annual income median: ~ 74.000$
entry level general practitioner's annual income median: ~ 230.000$ (!)
As you can see from those numbers it looks like a GP is more suited in realizing this dream, than professions closer to his genuine interests.
Would Edwin have chosen this career path, if he didn't feel like he ows his mother something?
That's circular reasoning. You assert that the MC's life must have been damaged by Victoria's actions and thus it will be a major point point when he's forced to reconcile his mental image of her with reality. But you have no actual evidence of the alleged harm to the MC.I would like to cite from an older post:
Edwins development as achildteenager was undoubtedly damaged by her lifestyle (ugh, that sounds harsh) and his findings, and it permeates his character to this day.
Intact doesn't mean unscathed, just that she's still a healthy woman with an acceptable life - and a son she loves very much. You say she's trying to make up for her shortcomings, but it's just as likely she's always been this way. I can be cynical, sure, but I need a solid reason not to take a mother's devotion to her son at face value. 'She did something distasteful to make ends meet' is not a solid reason.Likewise and contrary to your assumption
no, she was damaged in that process and bears the scars and consequences (like her difficulties to get a regular job) to this day. It definitely has affected her relation to Edwin on her side also.
Victoria is now aware of her shortcomings towards her son during this time and does her best to make up for it. As other members have already pointed out in this thread: she just should have worked harder instead choosing to do porn.
I admit i am playing a little bit devil's advocate here, because my personal view on Vicky isn't that bleak.
Please. 'They' degraded her in a porn video; that's hardly worth commenting on. They didn't break out tarantulas, or arrange a fake interview with Victoria's boss, or make her shoot the porno in a park near her home. And again, that's assuming what we see on film was genuine, rather than staged for the camera.'they' treated her also (equally) in a despicable way, like we already have seen in the first two reviews and which i will try to emphasize in my review of Victoria's third pornshoot.
Victoria could have been easily broken by those 'small time pornos' like many other women who get into sex-work, i have atm no data on this, but i expect the numbers of drug-addiction, alcoholism and depression in this sub-populace are much higher than its prevalence in the general public. Emerging somewhat 'intact' from this experience is Victorias merit alone, and not a special accomplishment of those porn producers. Breaking intentionally or not doesn't matter for the toy, if the result is the same.
Also there is no guarantee that Kathleen always succeeds in her endeavour, much like Harper who has undergone Kat's and other club members treatment multiple times by now, unbroken. Likewise Victoria could have prevailed. And with or without our (Edwins) help perhaps the current Carnations also.
True. But I'd argue there's an even bigger difference between negligent homicide and not getting someone killed in the first place, which is more what I was going for.The difference between breaking something intentionally or not is in the degree of personal guilt of the breaker.
There is a difference between first degree murder and manslaughter.
So, as far Edwin is concerned those two decisions still bear a tremendous amount of weight.
As for those other points i'll probably adress them in some other post, in order to not overcrowd this one.
Cheers ename144, always a pleasure to spar with you!
On the other hand...
I found some titties on youtube!
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But I was not able to decipher which scene you mean. Or do you wish to keep it a mystery, so we all searching for it?
(It's a while since I played PC...)
Not sure if I wrote this already before at some point...
But kudos to TD for referencing the unquestionable best food movie of all time!
Full movie on youtube
Ah yes, I remember.
I actually prefer watching movies like that to most current ones.
Thank you very much for taking your time.
I try to base my findings on content in the current iteration of PC, which led, for instance, me recognizing her last, high-class video as real, a fact which i heavily disputed in ch3upd4.That's an extremely speculative statement. First, because we can't ignore the possibility that the lack of timestamp was an error in the game.
Here i am a bit confused, because the shoot i claim to be raw footage is the second, the 'yellow' one and it doesn't display another camera in the ingame pictures so i am pretty sure i didn't say we see a camera there (just checked my post again, and no, didn't say that).As you noted, we see a camera in some of the shots. You assumed that was proof the MC had behind the scenes footage. Occam's razor suggests shoot included faux-BTS footage to help sell the illusion that it was real.
According to your math above 2009 + 14 years or 15 years would get us 2023 or 2024 as the current ingame year.*IF* we accept Victoria's stated age in her 'debut' video and assume the timestamp is accurate, it took place 14-15 years ago. [The game lists her as 46 currently and she says she was 31 at the time of shooting; since the video was shot in January and Week 1 starts on June 1, it would be 15 years ago if her birthday was between January and June, or 14 years ago otherwise. ] The MC just had his 22nd birthday at the end of Week 1, and we know his father died when he was 6 (i.e. 15-16 years before the game). That seems fully compatible with the MC's summary of his mom's porn career to Hana: "For a brief time after [my father died], she made a living on her back."
Do i? Apart from from her probably five years older age? Which means she didn't started just after her husbands death?I think you're ignoring the actual game in favor of your preferred interpretation. AFAICT, nothing in the video clips we've seen calls the MC's story into question.
is conveniently vague enough to literally span any duration (what is brief in Edwins book?) at nearly any point in time between his father's death and the current ingame year, as long as it includes 2009 and 2010.the MC's summary of his mom's porn career to Hana: "For a brief time after [my father died], she made a living on her back."
Doesn't change the fact, that a GP, even if they start 10 years later due their prolonged educational needs and their higher study debts, catches up and surpasses those engineers and physicist in roughly 13 years, probably even faster if they are self-employed. After that they are still earning more than them for like 20 years. Income-wise GP is the better option in the long run.(...) even if we go with these numbers, it's not really a fair comparison. (...) So not only does the GP require a lot more money for education, they also need to wait longer before they can start earning the salary.
AFAIK that's the flavour text if you choose the "Helping People" motivation at the start of the game.In fact, as I recall he specifically mentions wanting to be a doctor because of the way they tried to help his father.
I agree. But i believe it was damn close to spiral really downwards for both of them. It remains to be seen how she pulled it off.Given that she managed to raise the MC into generally well-adjusted young adult on his way to becoming a doctor, I'd say she did fairly well for a single mother with no familial support.
That's a question which can't be answered as of ch4upd1.The question is whether she could have done a better job than she did with the options available to her.
This caught me a bit off guard, because i thought it was more than obvious. Since this post is already huge i can't answer that right now, it deserves to be examined on its own. Sorry.You assert that the MC's life must have been damaged by Victoria's actions (...) But you have no actual evidence of the alleged harm to the MC.
You are partly to blame that i wasn't able to work on my review of her third pornshoot, in which i plan to adress this issue.Intact doesn't mean unscathed, just that she's still a healthy woman with an acceptable life - and a son she loves very much. You say she's trying to make up for her shortcomings, but it's just as likely she's always been this way. I can be cynical, sure, but I need a solid reason not to take a mother's devotion to her son at face value.
Ehh, what?They didn't break out tarantulas, or arrange a fake interview with Victoria's boss, or make her shoot the porno in a park near her home.
I don't see how this relates in any way to above topic. We know that she is dangerous, but that's not part of her usual routine.Meanwhile Kat is using people for clandestine drug tests.
Yes. The room with all the red decoration. I didn't make a save there and I can't remember what they called the room. It's a carbon copy of the Shrine of Azura in Skyrim except this one is gold/bronze and the one in Skyrim is a grey stone material.Is it the golden one on the main stage?